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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vice president, Jerome Clarke Hunsaker is not new to teaching or to M.I.T. Graduated high in his class from Annapolis in 1908 he was selected the following year for the Corps of Naval Constructors and sent to M.I.T. for advanced work. Aeronautics as a science did not then exist in the U.S., but a beginning had been made abroad. A request from M.I.T. to the Navy Department, and Jerome Hunsaker was on his way to England and France where he studied wind tunnels, to Germany where he rode on a Zeppelin, asked embarrassing questions, remembered what he saw. Back...
...Justice. In 13 years it spent more than $100,000,000, took more than 250 lives. Last week its last director, Major Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, went bitterly out of office with familiar charges of "duplicity, double-crossing and double-dealing" against his subordinates. The Prohibition Bureau ceased to exist legally when it was swallowed up by the Justice Department's new Division of Investigation under John Edgar Hoover. All 1,800 Dry agents were dismissed, 1,000 rehired. Postmaster General Farley solemnly announced that enforcement would continue as before until Repeal...
...Saint-Simon. In 1802 he learned of the death of the husband of famed Essayist Mme Anne Louise Germaine de Staël. Promptly the Comte divorced his own wife, hastened to Geneva, informed Mme de Stael that he and she, ''the most extraordinary persons who exist.'' would be married in a balloon and would create a child "who will startle the world at large." Mme de Staël said...
Although there has been some undergraduate complaint of certain features of the Summer School, an investigation has revealed that faults that exist in the teaching staff and the food are not to be blamed on the Summer School authorities...
...spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will take out water until the ship sits on the concrete bottom, propped upright so that its hull may be scraped.* Flanking the dry dock...